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A small ''brain wandering journey'' on why I feel MOOC research should look more intensely at informal learning outside of the actual MOOCs (informal learning generated by the dynamics in MOOCs), and overall lifelong learning in an ever changing online learning environment, for a workforce that is becoming older in an knowledge driven era. MORE

As learning professionals, most of us are familiar with the 70:20:10 Model for Learning and Development that describes how learning happens. It is no surprise that today more and more companies are using some form of social learning that enables employees to learn from each other. In What is social learning? How can social learning help people learn? MORE

The premise of this post is that when an organization makes a conscious effort to move towards a more social way of doing business, it usually begins with the introduction of an enterprise collaboration platform. Conceptually, the change may appear to be a very simple one–move from emails to a more open mode of communication on a collaboration platform. THE HAT OF A TRAINER. MORE

Skillshare, a collaborativelearning startup, launches The Classroom. Blended LearningLearning Systems Professional Development Social MediaThis online area is available to. every Skillshare class for students and teachers to interact, share resources, ask questions, get. feedback, and more. MORE

Invite business leaders to learning teamwork sessions. Use these meetings to get a sense of the perceived and measurable business value of current learning offerings and what you can do to improve, Jackson said. Today’s learning is situation-driven, so design learning that is accessible where they need to learn, said CGB Enterprises’ Dave Koll. Review. MORE

She described how she and her Kenyan friends get together frequently for an entire day to cook, talk, braid each other’s hair, and learn things from each other. Learning has also become less community-based in the United States. More and more, learning has focused on web-based training and distance learning. And isn’t adult learning supposed to be about that, too? MORE

I’ve previously written about the need to design learning & high performance ecosystems here , and have been reflecting on some common ingredients for effective ones. I’ve captured some of these in the infographic below: 5 Ingredients of HIGH PERFORMANCE ECOSYSTEM : COMPANY CULTURE. COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS. MINDSET. PERFORMANCE SUPPORT. Designed by our Guest Blogger, Arun Pradhan. MORE

Collaboration in learning is a good way to invite ideas and brainstorm but does not always meet learning objectives set out by the training team. One way to increase effectiveness and productivity of collaborativelearning is by engaging learners in well- defined scripts. Types of ID based Collaborative Approaches. Instructional Design MORE

Today I gave a webinar presentation on Social & CollaborativeLearning. Below is the slideset I made available on Slideshare, but if you would like to read the slide notes and get the links to further resources, you will find them here: Social & CollaborativeLearning in the Workplace. Social learningMORE

As learning in the workplace inevitably informalises, the motivation of employees to drive their own development becomes increasingly pivotal to their performance. Essentially this means putting the topic into context for them, clarifying how it relates to their role, and explaining why they should bother learning it. Box’s quote that “all models are wrong, but some are useful”. MORE

What are the benefits of collaborativelearning, for the students? These are good, but not aspects of collaboration I had considered. Enhances student satisfaction with the learning experience. 6. Creates an environment of active, involved, exploratory learning. Distance Learning / Distance Education. Blogging Collaboration eAssessment Wiki Well, here are my selection from the 40 or so listed on the Global Development Research Centre’s website which I had not considered before; 1. Develops higher level thinking skills. 4. MORE

“ When people leverage collaboration platforms to contribute and to build relationships, that appeals to their intrinsic motivators of autonomy, mastery, and relatedness. ” ~ Working Out Loud: Better for You; Better for the Firm. It has helped me to develop my personal learning network (PLN) and enabled my PKM. complex world requires collaborative and cooperative problem solving. Q. MORE

Learning from one another is what people have always done throughout human history, so ‘social and collaborativelearning’ as a learning method is likely to be the oldest one in existence. Even if our approach to training and learning has evolved over time, we still inevitably learn from those we collaborate with. onboarding happens quicker!): Coach. MORE

Learning is the process of acquiring new knowledge and skills. Just like 2 + 2 and 1 + 3 equal the same 4, there is more than one way to learn. Formal learning, of course, got the most attention throughout the years, especially in work situations, overshadowing the other two types of learning and informal learning in particular. Of course, there are lots of reasons, but one seems to stand out: formal business learning can be measured. People learn a lot in informal settings, but this can hardly be measured. Informal and collaborativelearning. MORE

Collaboration is a good way to invite ideas and brainstorm – so it is a great practice for the workplace. However, many L&D managers often worry that collaborativelearning might not always meet learning objectives set out by the training team. For this, it is necessary to create a structured environment of learning with collaboration as a part of the strategy. MORE

Technological infrastructure for social learning. Work and learning are converging, and as this change happens, the infrastructure of the old corporate learning must go – things like traditional one-size-fit-all in-person training seminars. Social networks are the ideal platform for the new corporate learning, so let’s briefly examine how they support corporate learning. MORE

what’s broken, let’s imagine what ideal corporate learning would look like if we could start over from scratch. Continuous learning is the only way they can keep up. Their work has become learning, and learning is the bulk of their work. But this way of learning – autonomous searching and social collaboration – has not yet been re?ected Twenty-?rst MORE

An abundance mindset symbolized by a collaborative and cooperative approach, open-mindedness, gratitude, appreciation and trust are hallmarks of a digital and connected world. This in turn makes it difficult for them to be learning agile or to adjust to a rapidly changing and ambiguous world. Collaborative Approach. Collaboration seems to be the mantra of the era. MORE

I’ve finally managed make a decent recording of my session at the Adobe Learning Summit. The session was titled ‘Collaborativelearning using Captivate and Twitter’- and showcases a new idea around how we believe Captivate courses of the future can help bridge the gap between 'Classroom based training' and eLearning. MORE

During 2012 Harold Jarche and I have been running a series of online workshops at the Social Learning Centre; these have proved to be very popular. In the “e-learning era” the focus of training moved to designing and developing sophisticated, self-paced, online course content, and then managing access to it in a LMS. Social learningHere is the introduction to the article. MORE

In corporate learning and development circles, we’ve been talking quite a bit lately about collaborativelearning. Fueled by the possibility of supporting collaboration through electronic tools, we get very excited about the synergies and surprises we might uncover by interacting with those we might not see often face-to-face. We’ve always been enamored with collaborative techniques, of course, using project work, group research projects, and book studies to develop insights and promote learning. understand those cautions. Sage, 2000 MORE

It’s not that seasoned and elder employees weren’t learning; we all learn all the time. Rather, they weren’t learning as well as they might. HR and training departments overlooked experienced employees because they learn experientially, from stretch assignments and mentors rather than from courses and workshops. Learning by experienced employees was left to chance. MORE

TOPYX, together with our client Interstate Batteries, has been honored with a Bronze 2016 Brandon Hall Excellence Award for Best Use of Social CollaborativeLearning. The TOPYX LMS platform is a feature-rich learning management system that enables organizations such as Interstate Batteries to leverage the power of social collaboration to enhance knowledge sharing and learning. MORE

have written before about the fallibility of trying to have social learning as a bolt-on strategy , on the role of social technology as an avenue for building communities in organizations , and the importance of building communities to facilitate emergent learning. The result is anything but inspiring or conducive to open collaboration. Bye bye communities and collaboration! 5. MORE

TOPYX, together with our client Interstate Batteries, has been honored with a Bronze 2016 Brandon Hall Excellence Award for Best Use of Social CollaborativeLearning. The TOPYX LMS platform is a feature-rich learning management system that enables organizations such as Interstate Batteries to leverage the power of social collaboration to enhance knowledge sharing and learning. MORE

Today is the age of collaboration. Therefore, the humbled loser approaches the turtle and puts forth a collaborative plan. Put to context, isn’t Continuous learning with a Collaborative mindset the crux of creating a learning culture in any organization ? The question is how adept are organizations/businesses in the sphere of Collaborativelearning? MORE

How do we break down organizational walls when it comes to learning? That’s the Learning Circuits Big Question for the month of June. I’ve thought about this question off and on for about a week now, and it is time to put pen to paper, or rather hands to keyboard. Collaborative market research. My other client plays in a very different space. MORE

eLearning course collaboration is one of the hardest things to achieve. Without course collaboration, learning is incomplete, as eLearning is an inherently social process. In this article, we’ll share the top 12 questions trainers need to ask while revising the course before delivery to boost collaboration. What areas of this content encourage collaborativelearning? MORE

Blended Learning is in itself self-explanatory, its all in the name. blended learning program is one that utilizes more than one mode of learning delivery –for a personalized and impactful learning experience. successful blend is one which captures the learning objectives and is delivered within the available infrastructure. Suggested further reading: [link]. MORE

We are talking about action plans derived from the learning resources presented in the course. When your learners talk about 101 ways to apply a learning resource, that’s when the course is successful. Then we will determine how to create active collaborative environments in each. Passive and collaborativelearning. Active and alone learning. This is it. MORE

What does continuous, collaborativelearning mean and why does it matter? Next week, I''ll be leading a webinar where we can start a conversation and then continuously collaborate on this topic! I''ll be looking at what other smarty pants have to say on the subject, share some juicy tidbits and information, and take a look at what real organizations are doing. Join me on 6/6 in this free webinar hosted by GoToTraining. Sign up today MORE

On June 6, I presented to a lively audience on "Continuous, collaborativelearning". Continuous, collaborativelearning: making it work for your org from Cammy Bean The webinar was hosted by GoToTraining/Citrix and Training Magazine. Check it out and let me know if you have any questions! MORE

Constantly emerging social media that are changing our ways of getting information also have a big impact on how we learn and what is more important, on how our students want to learn. That’s why I’ve decided to dig inside Computer supported collaborativelearning (CSCL) theory and present a possible tool that supports creative thinking and collaboration capabilities. MORE

@ignatia (Inge de Waard) describes MOOCs thus in her Master’s Thesis, which I have referred to: “MOOC is above all referring to a pedagogical model with independent learners, access to information, opportunity to create emerging, spontaneous, yet not directed learning communities, etcetera. There is an urgent need to re-imagine workplace learning for the networked world. MORE

What is common across the learning modes and methods mentioned? Social learning via an enterprise collaboration platform. Mobile enabled learning accessible anytime, anywhere, on any device of the user’s choice. MOOCs which straddle the line between social learning and e-learning with learner communities. But first, WHAT IS EMERGENT LEARNING? MORE

Judges at the Learning & Performance Institute have shortlisted Saffron Share, an open source Learning Experience Network, for the 2014 Learning Awards. The versatile product combines learning content management with ‘social activators’ to speed time-to-competence and open up new frontiers for learning technologies. Saffron Interactive has created bespoke learning platforms for FTSE100 companies and government agencies for several years. The full list of finalists is available here. MORE

What is social learning and how can you use it to foster collaborativelearning. As learning professionals, most of us are familiar with the 70:20:10 Model for Learning and Development that describes how learning happens. What is social learning? In simple terms, social learning is learning with and from others. Social LearningMORE

Learning from one another is what people have always done throughout human history, so ‘social and collaborativelearning’ as a learning method is likely to be the oldest one in existence. Even if our approach to training and learning has evolved over time, we still inevitably learn from those we collaborate with. onboarding happens quicker!): Coach.

She described how she and her Kenyan friends get together frequently for an entire day to cook, talk, braid each other’s hair, and learn things from each other. Learning has also become less community-based in the United States. More and more, learning has focused on web-based training and distance learning. And isn’t adult learning supposed to be about that, too?

Collaboration is a good way to invite ideas and brainstorm – so it is a great practice for the workplace. However, many L&D managers often worry that collaborativelearning might not always meet learning objectives set out by the training team. For this, it is necessary to create a structured environment of learning with collaboration as a part of the strategy.

Invite business leaders to learning teamwork sessions. Use these meetings to get a sense of the perceived and measurable business value of current learning offerings and what you can do to improve, Jackson said. Today’s learning is situation-driven, so design learning that is accessible where they need to learn, said CGB Enterprises’ Dave Koll. Review.

Constantly emerging social media that are changing our ways of getting information also have a big impact on how we learn and what is more important, on how our students want to learn. That’s why I’ve decided to dig inside Computer supported collaborativelearning (CSCL) theory and present a possible tool that supports creative thinking and collaboration capabilities.

Collaboration in learning is a good way to invite ideas and brainstorm but does not always meet learning objectives set out by the training team. One way to increase effectiveness and productivity of collaborativelearning is by engaging learners in well- defined scripts. Types of ID based Collaborative Approaches. Instructional Design

As learning professionals, most of us are familiar with the 70:20:10 Model for Learning and Development that describes how learning happens. It is no surprise that today more and more companies are using some form of social learning that enables employees to learn from each other. In What is social learning? How can social learning help people learn?

During 2012 Harold Jarche and I have been running a series of online workshops at the Social Learning Centre; these have proved to be very popular. In the “e-learning era” the focus of training moved to designing and developing sophisticated, self-paced, online course content, and then managing access to it in a LMS. Social learningHere is the introduction to the article.

What is social learning and how can you use it to foster collaborativelearning. As learning professionals, most of us are familiar with the 70:20:10 Model for Learning and Development that describes how learning happens. What is social learning? In simple terms, social learning is learning with and from others. Social Learning

On June 6, I presented to a lively audience on "Continuous, collaborativelearning". Continuous, collaborativelearning: making it work for your org from Cammy Bean The webinar was hosted by GoToTraining/Citrix and Training Magazine. Check it out and let me know if you have any questions!

In corporate learning and development circles, we’ve been talking quite a bit lately about collaborativelearning. Fueled by the possibility of supporting collaboration through electronic tools, we get very excited about the synergies and surprises we might uncover by interacting with those we might not see often face-to-face. We’ve always been enamored with collaborative techniques, of course, using project work, group research projects, and book studies to develop insights and promote learning. understand those cautions. Sage, 2000

Technological infrastructure for social learning. Work and learning are converging, and as this change happens, the infrastructure of the old corporate learning must go – things like traditional one-size-fit-all in-person training seminars. Social networks are the ideal platform for the new corporate learning, so let’s briefly examine how they support corporate learning.

Constantly emerging social media that are changing our ways of getting information also have a big impact on how we learn and what is more important, on how our students want to learn. That’s why I’ve decided to dig inside Computer supported collaborativelearning (CSCL) theory and present a possible tool that supports creative thinking and collaboration capabilities.

Collaboration in learning is a good way to invite ideas and brainstorm but does not always meet learning objectives set out by the training team. One way to increase effectiveness and productivity of collaborativelearning is by engaging learners in well- defined scripts. Types of ID based Collaborative Approaches. Instructional Design

As learning professionals, most of us are familiar with the 70:20:10 Model for Learning and Development that describes how learning happens. It is no surprise that today more and more companies are using some form of social learning that enables employees to learn from each other. In What is social learning? How can social learning help people learn?

Judges at the Learning & Performance Institute have shortlisted Saffron Share, an open source Learning Experience Network, for the 2014 Learning Awards. The versatile product combines learning content management with ‘social activators’ to speed time-to-competence and open up new frontiers for learning technologies. Saffron Interactive has created bespoke learning platforms for FTSE100 companies and government agencies for several years. The full list of finalists is available here.

eLearning course collaboration is one of the hardest things to achieve. Without course collaboration, learning is incomplete, as eLearning is an inherently social process. In this article, we’ll share the top 12 questions trainers need to ask while revising the course before delivery to boost collaboration. What areas of this content encourage collaborativelearning?

How do we break down organizational walls when it comes to learning? That’s the Learning Circuits Big Question for the month of June. I’ve thought about this question off and on for about a week now, and it is time to put pen to paper, or rather hands to keyboard. Collaborative market research. My other client plays in a very different space.

Today is the age of collaboration. Therefore, the humbled loser approaches the turtle and puts forth a collaborative plan. Put to context, isn’t Continuous learning with a Collaborative mindset the crux of creating a learning culture in any organization ? The question is how adept are organizations/businesses in the sphere of Collaborativelearning?

What are the benefits of collaborativelearning, for the students? These are good, but not aspects of collaboration I had considered. Enhances student satisfaction with the learning experience. 6. Creates an environment of active, involved, exploratory learning. Distance Learning / Distance Education. Blogging Collaboration eAssessment Wiki Well, here are my selection from the 40 or so listed on the Global Development Research Centre’s website which I had not considered before; 1. Develops higher level thinking skills. 4.

It’s not that seasoned and elder employees weren’t learning; we all learn all the time. Rather, they weren’t learning as well as they might. HR and training departments overlooked experienced employees because they learn experientially, from stretch assignments and mentors rather than from courses and workshops. Learning by experienced employees was left to chance.

Today I gave a webinar presentation on Social & CollaborativeLearning. Below is the slideset I made available on Slideshare, but if you would like to read the slide notes and get the links to further resources, you will find them here: Social & CollaborativeLearning in the Workplace. Social learning

Skillshare, a collaborativelearning startup, launches The Classroom. Blended LearningLearning Systems Professional Development Social MediaThis online area is available to. every Skillshare class for students and teachers to interact, share resources, ask questions, get. feedback, and more.

Learning is the process of acquiring new knowledge and skills. Just like 2 + 2 and 1 + 3 equal the same 4, there is more than one way to learn. Formal learning, of course, got the most attention throughout the years, especially in work situations, overshadowing the other two types of learning and informal learning in particular. Of course, there are lots of reasons, but one seems to stand out: formal business learning can be measured. People learn a lot in informal settings, but this can hardly be measured. Informal and collaborativelearning.

@ignatia (Inge de Waard) describes MOOCs thus in her Master’s Thesis, which I have referred to: “MOOC is above all referring to a pedagogical model with independent learners, access to information, opportunity to create emerging, spontaneous, yet not directed learning communities, etcetera. There is an urgent need to re-imagine workplace learning for the networked world.

I’ve previously written about the need to design learning & high performance ecosystems here , and have been reflecting on some common ingredients for effective ones. I’ve captured some of these in the infographic below: 5 Ingredients of HIGH PERFORMANCE ECOSYSTEM : COMPANY CULTURE. COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS. MINDSET. PERFORMANCE SUPPORT. Designed by our Guest Blogger, Arun Pradhan.

As learning in the workplace inevitably informalises, the motivation of employees to drive their own development becomes increasingly pivotal to their performance. Essentially this means putting the topic into context for them, clarifying how it relates to their role, and explaining why they should bother learning it. Box’s quote that “all models are wrong, but some are useful”.

TOPYX, together with our client Interstate Batteries, has been honored with a Bronze 2016 Brandon Hall Excellence Award for Best Use of Social CollaborativeLearning. The TOPYX LMS platform is a feature-rich learning management system that enables organizations such as Interstate Batteries to leverage the power of social collaboration to enhance knowledge sharing and learning.

TOPYX, together with our client Interstate Batteries, has been honored with a Bronze 2016 Brandon Hall Excellence Award for Best Use of Social CollaborativeLearning. The TOPYX LMS platform is a feature-rich learning management system that enables organizations such as Interstate Batteries to leverage the power of social collaboration to enhance knowledge sharing and learning.

what’s broken, let’s imagine what ideal corporate learning would look like if we could start over from scratch. Continuous learning is the only way they can keep up. Their work has become learning, and learning is the bulk of their work. But this way of learning – autonomous searching and social collaboration – has not yet been re?ected Twenty-?rst

What is common across the learning modes and methods mentioned? Social learning via an enterprise collaboration platform. Mobile enabled learning accessible anytime, anywhere, on any device of the user’s choice. MOOCs which straddle the line between social learning and e-learning with learner communities. But first, WHAT IS EMERGENT LEARNING?

“ When people leverage collaboration platforms to contribute and to build relationships, that appeals to their intrinsic motivators of autonomy, mastery, and relatedness. ” ~ Working Out Loud: Better for You; Better for the Firm. It has helped me to develop my personal learning network (PLN) and enabled my PKM. complex world requires collaborative and cooperative problem solving. Q.

Blended Learning is in itself self-explanatory, its all in the name. blended learning program is one that utilizes more than one mode of learning delivery –for a personalized and impactful learning experience. successful blend is one which captures the learning objectives and is delivered within the available infrastructure. Suggested further reading: [link].

I’ve finally managed make a decent recording of my session at the Adobe Learning Summit. The session was titled ‘Collaborativelearning using Captivate and Twitter’- and showcases a new idea around how we believe Captivate courses of the future can help bridge the gap between 'Classroom based training' and eLearning.

An abundance mindset symbolized by a collaborative and cooperative approach, open-mindedness, gratitude, appreciation and trust are hallmarks of a digital and connected world. This in turn makes it difficult for them to be learning agile or to adjust to a rapidly changing and ambiguous world. Collaborative Approach. Collaboration seems to be the mantra of the era.

have written before about the fallibility of trying to have social learning as a bolt-on strategy , on the role of social technology as an avenue for building communities in organizations , and the importance of building communities to facilitate emergent learning. The result is anything but inspiring or conducive to open collaboration. Bye bye communities and collaboration! 5.

A small ''brain wandering journey'' on why I feel MOOC research should look more intensely at informal learning outside of the actual MOOCs (informal learning generated by the dynamics in MOOCs), and overall lifelong learning in an ever changing online learning environment, for a workforce that is becoming older in an knowledge driven era.

The premise of this post is that when an organization makes a conscious effort to move towards a more social way of doing business, it usually begins with the introduction of an enterprise collaboration platform. Conceptually, the change may appear to be a very simple one–move from emails to a more open mode of communication on a collaboration platform. THE HAT OF A TRAINER.

What does continuous, collaborativelearning mean and why does it matter? Next week, I''ll be leading a webinar where we can start a conversation and then continuously collaborate on this topic! I''ll be looking at what other smarty pants have to say on the subject, share some juicy tidbits and information, and take a look at what real organizations are doing. Join me on 6/6 in this free webinar hosted by GoToTraining. Sign up today

We are talking about action plans derived from the learning resources presented in the course. When your learners talk about 101 ways to apply a learning resource, that’s when the course is successful. Then we will determine how to create active collaborative environments in each. Passive and collaborativelearning. Active and alone learning. This is it.